Biographies
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:E.H. Gombrich

THE MONGOLS In Germany the death of the last Hohenstaufen led to greater confusion than ever. No one could agree on a new king so none was chosen. And because ...
( Category: European History October 18,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 1969-01-01 | Author:Charles Bukowski

To Funky Bukowski I call you funky Bukowski, because I think you’re nasty don’t get mad, cause, I like your nasty — it makes me hot to read about; you ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-08-25 | Author:Hervé le Tellier [Tellier, Hervé le]

Yves pauses, has a drink of water. On the rue de Turenne, Stan walks past his wife’s car without noticing it, and hails a taxi. Yves looks briefly at Anna, ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-11-15 | Author:John Cowper Powys

What I realized at that time was indeed nothing less than the very thing I had so delighted that Chinaman, as I fumbled towards it, drunk with Corpus wine, by ...
( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:John Berger [Berger, John]

“One might quote many illustrious names through the centuries. Three will suffice. Poussin, Watteau, Delacroix.… but besides these great artists, for whom painting is a magic interpretation of the most ...
( Category: Art History & Criticism October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1686-01-01 | Author:Sir Thomas Browne [Browne, Sir Thomas]

( Category: Historical Biographies October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2021-10-15 | Author:Kedgley, Sue

A photo promoting That’s Fairly Interesting, which screened in 1987. On my left are producer Neil Roberts and reporter Tim Shadbolt, to my right are Phil Gifford and Kevin Black. ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Dunn, Megan [Dunn, Megan]

Nights The gallery had a window box that we liked to sit in; the original sun-bleached, grey-chequered linoleum still present, warped at the edges, a box of cask wine between ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 18,2021 )
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

2. If you already have some background experience, the teaching situation can be switched so that it allows you (the student) to explain the technique, while your instructor simultaneously demonstrates ...
( Category: Architecture October 18,2021 )
azw3, pdf |eng | 1988-01-01 | Author:Mary Gaitskill

That night she went to a group show at a small gallery in Soho that included work by her friend Sandra. As usual, she was one of the few non-artists ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Kenzaburō Ōe

Truth Unspeakable AS Takashi and Hoshio came into the storehouse carrying the oil stove, which was totally enclosed and remote in color from any associations of warmth, I saw powdery ...
( Category: Memoirs October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-05-10 | Author:John Cowper Powys

16 A Game of Bowls Wolf was compelled that particular afternoon to walk a good deal faster than his wont, to reach the manor-house of King's Barton in time for ...
( Category: Literary Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1992-01-01 | Author:M. John Harrison [Harrison, M. John]

NINE The Place of the Cure of the Soul We are so quick to look for closure, for the clear termination of sections of our life, that we often invent ...
( Category: Contemporary Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 2021-07-12 | Author:Richard Zenith [Zenith, Richard]

CHAPTER 44 EVER SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF ORPHEU 1, WHOSE most talked-about contribution was Álvaro de Campos’s reputedly futurist “Triumphal Ode,” Pessoa had been distancing himself from Marinetti’s movement, but ...
( Category: Arts & Literature Biographies October 18,2021 )
azw3 |eng | 1981-11-17 | Author:H.D.

ten It seemed now Lillian and George had gone home, standing before the little image, that she had always known what she had known now always. I have always known ...
( Category: Genre Literature & Fiction October 18,2021 )